Scripture Natural History: Containing a Descriptive Account of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Serpents, Plants, Trees, Minerals, Gems, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the BibleLincoln, Edmands & Company, 1833 - 408 pages |
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... length , when he is assured of the strength , fleetness , and sobriety of his camels , he loads them with whatever is necessary for his and their subsistence , departs with them , arrives unexpectedly at the confines of the des- ert ...
... length , when he is assured of the strength , fleetness , and sobriety of his camels , he loads them with whatever is necessary for his and their subsistence , departs with them , arrives unexpectedly at the confines of the des- ert ...
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... length of its ears , which are sometimes upwards of a foot long , and broad in pro- portion . To this description of the goat it is , as Mr. Harmer rea- sonably supposes , that the prophet Amos refers , in expressing the smallness of ...
... length of its ears , which are sometimes upwards of a foot long , and broad in pro- portion . To this description of the goat it is , as Mr. Harmer rea- sonably supposes , that the prophet Amos refers , in expressing the smallness of ...
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... length of a large lion is between eight and nine feet ; and its height about four feet and a half . The top of the head , the temples , the cheeks , the under jaw , the neck , the breast , the shoulder , the hind- er part of the legs ...
... length of a large lion is between eight and nine feet ; and its height about four feet and a half . The top of the head , the temples , the cheeks , the under jaw , the neck , the breast , the shoulder , the hind- er part of the legs ...
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... length of time nor change of circumstances could subdue . The lion symbolizes also the strength , generosity , and terrible presence of an angel ; for , in the prophecies of Ezekiel , the living creatures , or cherubim , the ministers ...
... length of time nor change of circumstances could subdue . The lion symbolizes also the strength , generosity , and terrible presence of an angel ; for , in the prophecies of Ezekiel , the living creatures , or cherubim , the ministers ...
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... length is about four feet from the nose to the origin of the tail , which is about two feet long . The predominant color is yellow- ish , and the spots with which it is covered are black . The head is of a moderate length , the ears are ...
... length is about four feet from the nose to the origin of the tail , which is about two feet long . The predominant color is yellow- ish , and the spots with which it is covered are black . The head is of a moderate length , the ears are ...
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Page 109 - AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, •** so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ' My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God?
Page 191 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Page 71 - Therefore they shall come and • sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd : and their soul shall be as a watered garden ; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Page 220 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron ; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Page 98 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 300 - Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
Page 266 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 324 - Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
Page 143 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 98 - The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-press.